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Low Carb Air Fryer Asparagus Recipe

When roasted in an air fryer, asparagus may be the easiest and quickest healthy snack that you can enjoy. It takes only 15 minutes to fry this delicious vegetable in an air fryer and serve as a side dish to your dinner or holiday meal.

Cooking it also needs no fancy ingredients, just 5 of them which are easily found in your home kitchen.

Asparagus

Parmesan cheese

Salt & Pepper

Olive oil

Lemon

Whether you are looking to add a new food to your keto diet or a green veggie to your kid’s meal, air fried asparagus will make the perfect choice.

Air Fryer vs Oven vs Stove Top

One benefit of cooking with an air fryer is that it requires less oil to properly roast and fry a vegetable in order to get cripsy edges. Compared to the oven or stop top, the air fryer uses only a fraction of oil while delivering taste and producing a crispy, perfectly fried and roasted asparagus spear.

The air fryer doesn’t take as long to preheat or roast your vegetables compared to an oven. Clean up is easier too since many air fryer baskets are dishwasher safe.

Using an air fryer in the Summer is the perfect solution to having roasted vegetables without heating your house by turning on your oven.

Preheat the Air Fryer for Quick, Crunchy Cooking

Since the air fryer is designed to use less or no oil, it is best to preheat it before using. But this keto recipe still turns out fabulous if you forget to preheat your airfryer. Preheating will enable the asparagus or any vegetable you roast to be crispier and crunchier. And the crisp will also last longer than usual.

To preheat the air fryer to make crisp asparagus, turn your air fryer to the appropriate temperature, in this case 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Your manual should tell you how long to preheat an air fryer. If it doesn’t, then set your air fryer to cook on it’s own for 3-5 minutes.

How to Pick Ripe Asparagus

To be able to cook healthy and tasty parmesan crusted asparagus, you need to be sure that it is ripe. So, how to pick ripe asparagus? Contrary to popular notion, size isn’t an indicator of either quality or flavor. Asparagus that is thick is just more mature than the thin one.
If you like tender texture, go for the thinner stalk. But for robust flavor and slightly meaty texture, pick the thicker one.

The best way to pick the best-quality asparagus is by looking for vivid green spears that have firm stems and tightly closed tips. Squeeze the bunch lightly to see if it squeaks. If it does, it is ripe and ready to cook.

If possible, go for the grocer who keeps the asparagus stored upright in cold and fresh water.

Tips on How To Trim Asparagus

For optimized flavor, you need to snap off the woody root ends of asparagus before cooking. Simply take the end of asparagus between your thumb and your forefinger then quickly bend it until it breaks. Because the end is less moisture and flexible, it breaks precisely where the woody part ends. So, you don’t have to be calculating about breaking too much or too little.

But in case you want to be extra careful about not cutting off the juicy greens, grab the chef’s knife and the cutting board. Line up all the spears equally in a row and slice off their woody ends at once. This is the simpliest way to cut asparagus.

Is Asparagus Keto?

Asparagus is one of the green family members, rich folic acid with loads of fiber, and Vitamin A, C and K.

In fact, the carb count of asparagus per 100 grams is half of broccoli and green beans. Six asparagus spears have 2 grams of net carbs in them. That’s a lot of vegetable for a small amount of carbs.

Thus, Parmesan-sprinkled air-fried asparagus makes an excellent keto side dish recipe. Since it takes less than 10 minutes, it is also an easy vegetable that you can cook any time.

Keto Recipes to Serve with Air Fryer Asparagus

If you are looking to cook up a delicious keto meal for your family. Try these recipes:

I strive to find meals that your whole family can enjoy (kids and relatives too) while you are on your keto quest. You can still have your favorite foods on the keto diet, you just have to be creative with how you make them.